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Corona: Matt Collier chooses Chauvet for Spafford drive-in show

On May 23, 2020, Lighting designer Matt Collier lit a two-hour-and-ten-minute show by jam band Spafford at the Digital Drive-In outside Phoenix. While incorporating the orange desert sunset into his design, he also had to come up with a substitute for the fog he planned to use before some strong southwest winds rendered that impossible. Helping him accomplish this feat was a collection of Chauvet Professional Maverick MK2 Spot and Rogue R2 Wash fixtures supplied by Hardwired Productions.

As for not being able to use the fog as planned, Collier relied on the performance features of the Maverick fixtures to texturize the 40’ by 10’ stage. “Unexpected things always pop up outdoors,” he says. “I ended up using the MK2's gobos and wide zoom for some cool projections because of the headwinds that killed my haze.”

Collier flew eight Maverick MK2 Spot and eight Rogue R2 Wash fixtures on the drive-in’s roof truss, while arranging eight additional units of the spots and eight more of the washes on the deck. “We had 70 cars in front of the stage and almost as many on the side and back ends,” says Collier. “It was fun to invert the tilt of our design to give everyone a good view.”

Fans who viewed the show were assigned to parking spots spaced 20’ apart. From these spots, they could get out of their vehicles and sit on lawn chairs or move to the beat of Spafford’s music, provided they maintained social distancing from people in other cars. Collier describes the show as being “as close as possible to a festival experience”.

(Photos: Paul Citone)

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